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@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@MattSpeller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@NerdyDad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@QuixoticJeremy said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Haven't been able to take lunch yet. Not sure if I'm going to get to either. =( sad because I'm dreaming of a nice steak.

Got a whole warehouse full of steaks. What kind would you want? NY strips? Sirloin? T-Bone? I also have a professional kitchen at my disposal. How do you want it cooked? Sous vide? On the grill?

Largest ribeye you've got, follow Rojo's cooking instructions.

Speaking of ribeye, I got my dad to pick these up for me before Easter from their local butcher shop:

All "cowboy cut", i.e. at least 2 inches thick. 1.7lb was the small one. Vacuum sealed and ready for the sous vide. And on sale, too.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Living in an ultra-liberal hippy dippy town has it's downsides - lack of good butchers & the ones that are here charge through the eyeballs.

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@MattSpeller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@MattSpeller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@NerdyDad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@QuixoticJeremy said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Haven't been able to take lunch yet. Not sure if I'm going to get to either. =( sad because I'm dreaming of a nice steak.

Got a whole warehouse full of steaks. What kind would you want? NY strips? Sirloin? T-Bone? I also have a professional kitchen at my disposal. How do you want it cooked? Sous vide? On the grill?

Largest ribeye you've got, follow Rojo's cooking instructions.

Speaking of ribeye, I got my dad to pick these up for me before Easter from their local butcher shop:

All "cowboy cut", i.e. at least 2 inches thick. 1.7lb was the small one. Vacuum sealed and ready for the sous vide. And on sale, too.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Living in an ultra-liberal hippy dippy town has it's downsides - lack of good butchers & the ones that are here charge through the eyeballs.

Come on down anytime, bud. Meat and guns are plentiful in Georgia.

I may just take you up on that some day. I enjoyed South Carolina (humidity aside) and I bet Georgia is even nicer.

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I wonder what cats think of us removing their shit from a box, putting it into another box and then taking it somewhere. Must be a really weird experience at first.

Most people wait for the cat to finish defecating. I feel like you're probably doing doing something wrong in this regard.

You owe me a keyboard you bastard! Hahahha

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Blew the guts out of some test equipment lastnight, now considering how to build a far more skookum version myself

Maybe you should create a superior mass mailing service... "Skookumail! We can gooder up your email campaigns, bud! We chooch 'em oot a few at a time, so nobody gets blacklisted!"

Oh frig bud, right on eh

That's weird, most companies will do it with a credit card number

@nadnerB said in Cars I Spot on the Road:

@scottalanmiller said in Cars I Spot on the Road:

I saw a Lotus yesterday.

Lots
Of
Trouble
Usually
Serious
...

I'd like one of the newer ones powered by toyota. They look like a hell of a lot of fun and do not require a spare bottle of Lucas brand replacement wiring smoke.

@DustinB3403 Bears climb trees really well so best not to think about it and just go for the gusto

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 Bears climb trees really well so best not to think about it and just go for the gusto

@MattSpeller as the resident Canadian has near daily encounters with bears.

Black bears are no big deal, it's the brown ones that poop out pepper scented bells

Actually going to hunt a black bear this weekend - by which I mean we are going fishing and if we see a bear we'll take the opportunity.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 Bears climb trees really well so best not to think about it and just go for the gusto

@MattSpeller as the resident Canadian has near daily encounters with bears.

Black bears are no big deal, it's the brown ones that poop out pepper scented bells

Actually going to hunt a black bear this weekend - by which I mean we are going fishing and if we see a bear we'll take the opportunity.

Is that legal up there, to just kill a bear? If you happen across one.

With a hunting license, appropriate tag etc absolutely.

https://wildsafebc.com/black-bear/

BC boasts one of the highest populations of black bears in the world with their numbers being somewhere between 120 and 150 thousand animals. Pretty much all of BC is considered “bear country” with bears inhabiting everything from the coastal forests, through to the interior grasslands. From north to south and east to west in this province you’ll have a chance to see black bears.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

KFC now offering instant delivery. .

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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just finished a 2 hour call with our Medical System as there was issues with the connectivity to the server on their end... Found that they have Cylance installed on the servers

Better than what our colleagues in the UK found installed on theirs heheheh

Symantec Backup Exec?

Guessing crypto.

So better than SBE. . . cause with Crypto you can pay to get your files back . . .

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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender You stole my link
http://www.mobihealthnews.com/12503/why-doctors-pagers-still-trump-smartphones

176 square miles of coverage for a single pager tower.

holy crap!

Pagers are great old tech

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender You stole my link
http://www.mobihealthnews.com/12503/why-doctors-pagers-still-trump-smartphones

176 square miles of coverage for a single pager tower.

holy crap!

Pagers are great old tech

So my question is - why didn't they build receivers for that old tech into modern cell phones? If a AA can last 3-4 weeks, then having that antenna there and software listening for it shouldn't put much strain on the system... perhaps there isn't room? /sigh

Because pagers don't send - that's why it works so good. Two way ones do exist though.

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howpagerswork.html

@EddieJennings there's free, and there's "free"

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Drinking:

@coliver said in What Are You Drinking:

@manxam said in What Are You Drinking:

Maybe I should see if I can find any of this? Of course, if I did, I likely wouldn't be able to type my review of it

I'm not sure what the issue is?

It's too weak?

One thing I learned distilling my own hooch is that there is such a thing as too strong.

I'm raging at Bodum. How do you take a perfectly good 1 liter beaker with a plunger and screw it up? Add useless plastic! WTF!?! GARBAGE!

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm raging at Bodum. How do you take a perfectly good 1 liter beaker with a plunger and screw it up? Add useless plastic! WTF!?! GARBAGE!

You don't like the taste of plastic?

Plastic is fine but they made it so that the handle at the top requires a cut out which means you put the plunger in at an angle and then spill grounds down the front of it into the bottom plastic bit which means you have to clean the frigging thing every time you use it. RAWR

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm raging at Bodum. How do you take a perfectly good 1 liter beaker with a plunger and screw it up? Add useless plastic! WTF!?! GARBAGE!

Is the actual plunger plastic or just the outside?

Just the knob on top, the lid/pour spout filter

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

How many households still have their biological father in them? How many kids still live one, if not both, of their biological parents? How many children are being raised by a family member that is not their biological parent?

We are the first era to know who the biological father was. It's believed that the family unit is strengthening, not decaying. The past wasn't that idealogical. You can make lots of fine arguments that family units are not strong. but I don't think that you can make that argument in the relative sense to the past.

We are, for example, the generation with the lowest teen pregnancy rates, ever. So many assumed social problems of the past are effectively gone today. The past wasn't the rosy place that we imagine, not one hundred years ago, not a thousand years ago.

Since you brought it up, why is teen pregnancy a bad thing?

How about destroying one's chances of furthering education as a start. Insufficient income would be next....

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

How many households still have their biological father in them? How many kids still live one, if not both, of their biological parents? How many children are being raised by a family member that is not their biological parent?

We are the first era to know who the biological father was. It's believed that the family unit is strengthening, not decaying. The past wasn't that idealogical. You can make lots of fine arguments that family units are not strong. but I don't think that you can make that argument in the relative sense to the past.

We are, for example, the generation with the lowest teen pregnancy rates, ever. So many assumed social problems of the past are effectively gone today. The past wasn't the rosy place that we imagine, not one hundred years ago, not a thousand years ago.

Since you brought it up, why is teen pregnancy a bad thing? From what I can tell, mostly because society (people) have deemed it so. Of course biologically, we are living much longer than we did 100 years ago, and definitely a lot longer than 500 years ago, so the need to jump right into having children to keep the species alive is no longer there, but biologically I thought we were, as a species, designed to have children in the teenage years?

Moral dictates that we are married before having kids.

Speak for yourself eh